Haven't learned this yet, but my best guess would be D. because in the cold wars, there was the Red Scare, which was somewhat like a Witch Hunt (like the salem witch trial) except they hunted down communists and persecuted them
Philip Booth's poem First Lesson deals with a life lesson a father teaches to his young kid. The lesson that father teaches is how to float on one's back. Father tells that she is now sheltered, but what she has to do when he is not around. Therefore, he talks about the skills she must learn. The poem can be interpreted as a survival poem. The correct answer is A.